WHEN prominent owner Max McNeill decided to end his association with Adrian Heskin in a contractual sense earlier this year, the Cork rider wasn’t so much at a crossroads, but instead found himself taking a turn a little bit sooner than he had planned.

The 31-year-old was always going to eventually come back home to Kilworth, Co Cork, but without the security of the job he held for seven seasons in Britain, and all the success that comes with it, he finds himself back to where it all started for him earlier than initially planned.